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When getting ready to shower your mother with love, admiration and tokens of your affection, you may want to take a leaf out of my family's book -- and actually ask your mom what she wants. As my children are now older than 21, it stands to reason that I won't be getting a popsicle-stick jewelry box or a card...

<p><span id="mainContent_lblArticleHtml">Coffee and moms -- perfect together. It&#39;s usually the first thing they think of when they wake in the morning -- oh, that and the kids, of course! </span></p> <p><span id="mainContent_lblArticleHtml">For Americans, the national beverage is a steaming mug of rich, dark liquid. We insist that it&#39;s impossible to get moving, to think rationally, to answer coherently before those...

It's May, folks. Know what that means? It's time for chocolate! (Well, isn't it always?) For Mother's Day, do something different and dig into this recipe, courtesy of Philadelphia's own Metropolitan Bakery ( www.metropolitanbakery.com ). This isn't really so difficult to make. And let the kids help out; little ones can measure the dry ingredients, and older children can learn...

Pizza night is a tradition in many households, a night reserved for takeout or delivery. But why not start a new tradition and make your own pizza at home? I won't lie and say it's as easy as picking up the phone, but it's also not as nearly as difficult as many people think. Pizza dough is yeasted, like most...

Appetizers are my family's favorite part of dinner. From there, we could go straight to dessert. So it's not surprising that my husband and I fell in love with tapas years ago when visiting our daughter, who was spending the spring of her junior year in college in Madrid. Hailing from Andalusia, in southernmost Spain, tapas are appetizers once given...